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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
It clearly shows that the rise of the Internet led to a drop in revenue.
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That's one interpretation.
There are others.
1) The Big Five were greedy dinosaurs who spent years fucking over customers and people got pissed off with them.
2) That everyone had now replaced their tapes and records with CDs, so the decline was inevitable.
3) That people didn't want to buy whole albums and wanted individual tracks.
4) People prefer streaming audio to any device so they can have access to everything, rather than carrying around lots of CDs
etc etc
The rise in digital music sales proves people are more than happy to pay for the content, they just don't want to buy physical media anymore.
Some graphs to prove you wrong, the internet has in fact *saved* the music industry. WTF would they do without the new sales revenues the internet has given them?
